On Wednesday 10 October 2007 11:03:50 Paul Fox wrote: > doug wrote: > > dan wrote: > > > just curious, why not visit forums? > > > > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. > > Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network > > there seems to be a vacuum in the open-source world for a forum > package that properly integrates mailing list access. yahoo groups > seems to have actually gotten it right. (except for the advertising. :-) > > paul
There are packages in the open source community for doing that. (as evidenced by mail2forum.com, pity they use phpbb as their forum.) I think that forums are in general a bad idea for software projects for two reasons - Unlike mailing lists - forums require that you visit, you must make a conscious decision to do something, where as a mailing list is a one time subscription and thereafter every message is pushed to me. Especially bad given that you have to create yet another password. Too much hassle, email is already very good at that. Very few places do forums well - Ubuntu does (but I think they mirror to their mailing lists as well) Forums tend to attract end users more than sysadmins (which is what I think the target audience of BackupPC is) Forums tend to generate less participation. If I could have used a forum to solve my initial hurdles with backuppc, I would only visit the forums when I had a problem, and thus wouldn't be reading this thread or participating. (Not that I participate much) A wiki on the other hand would be great - esp if we could get someone dedicated to going through the mailing list and pulling out nuggets and creating wiki content from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
